Sushi Lover's Cookbook: Easy-to-Prepare Recipes for Every Occasion

by Yumi Umemura, Noboru Murata (Photographer)

Overview

Make classic sushi along with more artful and exotic rolls with this illustrated sushi cookbook.

In this sushi making book, Japanese cooking expert Yumi Umemura offers eighty-five recipes that combine sushi rice with ingredients ranging from its time-honored partners to unexpectedly delicious ingredients—such as Thai fish sauce, sun-dried tomatoes, cooked meats like roast beef or chicken and French ratatouille—that infuse Japanese sushi with an unexpected and international flair. Sushi fans will love Umemura's traditional instructions for making Inside-Out Rolls, Nigiri Sushi, Hand Rolls, and Inari Sushi, and her exciting and innovative recipes for Thai Shrimp Sushi Parcels, Taco Sushi, and Korean Kimchi Sushi Rolls.

Sushi Recipes include:

• Seared Tataki Beef Sushi
• Tempura Sushi
• Four Color Rolls
• Two-Cheese Tuna Salad Rolls
• Simple Mushroom and Chicken Sushi Rice
• Poached Egg Sushi Rice Salad
• Prosciutto Rolls
• Tuna Tartare Gunkan Sushi
• Avocado Sesame Rolls
• Thai Shrimp Sushi Parcels
• Korean Kimchi Sushi Rolls

Whether making the classic thick rolls, thin rolls, or experimenting with one of Umemura's fun and easy-to-make inventions such as ball or pizza sushi, The Sushi Lover's Cookbook is the one sushi cookbook fanatics need to guide them to sushi nirvana.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9784805312995
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	08/05/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 11.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Yumi Umemura is an expert chef in a variety of foods and is the author or translator of a number of cookbooks. She teaches cooking and creative table-setting in Tokyo and around the world. She has demonstrated recipes on Japanese television and is a frequent contributor to several Japanese publications.

Photographer Noboru Murata has had a career of more than thirty years as an advertising photographer. His publications include The Japanese House, Japan Style and Japanese Gardens, all published by Tuttle Publishing.

Recipe

The Sushi Lover’s Cookbook is sure to fire the imagination of the beginner sushi cook and to stoke the passions of the experienced cook who had thought they’d tried everything. People who are fanatic about their sushi will find much to love in this exquisitely illustrated cookbook, which features traditional favorite sushi recipes—such as Inside-Out Rolls, Nigiri Sushi, Hand Rolls and Inari Sushi (Tofu Pouches)—as well as exciting new recipes with international flair.

In an accessible and friendly tone, Japanese cooking expert Yumi Umemura leads you through eighty-five easy recipes combining sushi rice—the key to authentic sushi—with ingredients that range from time-honored favorites to more recently popular ingredients such as avocados and smoked salmon.

Many recipes reflect sushi’s worldwide popularity—incorporating the diverse tastes of Thai fish sauce or French ratatouille and atypical (and yes, cooked!) sushi ingredients such as roast beef, chicken or sun-dried tomatoes.

Whether you’re making classic thick rolls or thin rolls, or experimenting with one of the author’s fun and easy-to-make sushi inventions such as ball or pizza sushi, you will enjoy using and being inspired by this beautiful cookbook.

Editorial Reviews

"[T]his one stands out as a new look at this delightful cuisine." —Twin Cities Daily Planet

"Sushi fanatics who've always wanted to try their hands at making their favorite cuisine will find [The Sushi Lover's Cookbook] an easy way to get started…" —Elle Magazine

"This beautifully shot tome…guides you through all the traditional sushi creations." —Time Out Singapore

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